The 20 Best Companies For Leaders

According to The Hay Group and Chief Executive Magazine, these are the 2008 Best Companies for Leaders, with their 2007 positions in brackets.

1. 3M Company (15)
2. Procter & Gamble (2)
3. General Electric (1)
4. Coca-Cola (5)
5. HSBC Holdings (14)
6. ABB
7. Southwest Airlines
8. IBM
9. Hewlett-Packard (10)
10. PepsiCo (7)
11. Nokia
12. Accenture Ltd.
13. FedEx
14. Infosys Technologies Ltd.
15. McDonald’s Corporation (18)
16. Caterpillar
17. American Express
18. Cisco Systems
19. Oracle
20. Intel Corporation

Hat Tip: George Ambler’s blog The Practice of Leadership

PS And what do these great leaders do?
“When asked what organizations value the most in leaders, 83 percent of the best in class organizations said “execution.” “

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